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November 2018 November 2018

GRAND CHARITY BARN/GARAGE SALE ON
Remembrance
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER AT 10.00
There will be 3 events this year to commemorate Remembrance Sunday on 11
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November.
My wife Eve and I have lived at 1 Quarr Cottages, Quarr Lane, off Halls Road, Firstly in the morning will be the annual parade, leaving the Scout Hut at about
Lytchett Matravers, BH16 6EP for 45 years. 1030, followed by the Remembrance Service at the Memorial then in Church.
During that period we have been involved in all sorts of activities that have At 7.00pm that evening, to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the end of World
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involved the amassing of great quantities of antiques and collectibles, furniture, War I, as part of the nationwide activity, we will be lighting the Parish Beacon on
both garden and workshop tools, dramatic society props, etc, etc, so that both Soul’s Moor
our cottage and barn are bulging at the seams! We’ve therefore decided to
have a grand charity sale on Saturday 10 November at 10.00. We also have At about 7.05pm our bell-ringers will be sounding a celebratory peal at the
hundreds of first edition books that can be seen by appointment. Our charities are Church as part of a national peal.
Christian Aid, Oxfam and World Vision.
There will be refreshments at the Scout Hut afterwards.
Please park on the wide verge of Halls Road and take the short walk up the
private Quarr Lane to Quarr Barn; the first building.
Open Spaces
Jo Puttick on 01929-459368, or
The Open Spaces Working Party will be meeting at 10am on Saturday
email – joandeve.puttick@gmail.com 3 November at Souls Bridge to do some more work in our village nature reserve
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which this month will be improving the stream edges around and opposite the
drain outlet just east of the streamside board walk . If you would like to help,
please turn up in suitable dress and wellies and make yourself known to Mike Gee
or Tony Bates. Garden shears and loppers will be useful if you have them.
Could the ALEXANDER

TECHNIQUE help you? Play Park
Two new ‘springers’ have ordered and will shortly be installed in the Play Park as
Learning the technique will enable you to
part of our on-going maintenance and repair programme.
realise that the way you stand & move can

be the cause of pain & tension
Reporting Defects
Dorset For You has a great tool on their website (https://
The BMJ gave www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/roads-highways-maintenance/roads-highways-and-
AT positive maintenance.aspx?folderIds=5543,6301) for the reporting of any defects such as
potholes, flooding, overgrown hedges, verges etc, broken lights and much more.
results in their
Whilst the Parish Council will always endeavour to assist in areas we can, many of
Back Pain trial the problems such as potholes or overgrown hedges which occur around the
village are the responsibility of either the landowner, or in the case of roads,
01929 298 323 Dorset Highways, and reporting these issues online will always get the quickest
response.
0770 441 9200
Bryan Benjafield
Jeannette Martin MSTAT

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